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WandaVision is the Marvel selection for tonight's viewing with my sister and her 12-year-old twins. I was trying to describe it a bit, but not much, but especially the fact that the plot unfolds and I wouldn't be answering questions that were going to be answered later on. Like, why is Vision alive? The twins love to ask questions, particularly the boy. I knew the twins hadn't watched sitcoms but I hadn't realized that they don't even know the word. Yes, I had to explain the concept of 'sitcom.'
All I can say is, it is a good thing they have me for an auntie.
Last week they went camping, and I watched Bill and Ted Face the Music. I enjoyed the first one as the ridiculous fun nonsense that it is, and have watched it a couple of times. The second was not so good and I only saw it once in the theater.
The third is fun and ridiculous, much better than the second but not as good as the first, IMO. It starts 25 years after the first, and was good at using characters and referencing scenes from the other movies. I appreciate when a sequel seems to understand 'people like this world, and want to revisit it.'
I did have 2 issues.
I knew from the trailer that Bill and Ted had not written The Song and are still trying to do so. Of course, the movie goes into more details, Wyld Stallions broke up, their wives (the princesses) have supported them and are tired of it, none of the other family members believe their story, etc. Bill and Ted, being the goofy eternal optimists that they are, mostly roll with it, but even they are kinda frustrated and worried that they haven't achieved their destiny and they are letting the future down. And I thought...this is really a bummer path to take. I can see why they did it, because otherwise, they had to have written the song and the world will be different and peaceful and then where does your plot come from? But as a fanfic writer who likes to think about backstory, I can't help but picture 25 years of frustration and unhappiness and want the boys to have had a better life.
The movie switches early on from saying 'Wyld Stallions' wrote the song to 'Preston/Logan' and as both Bill and Ted have daughters, I thought, oh, I bet the girls are going to write the song. And I was correct, the daughters end up traveling through time to collect up a band of musicians and then improvise the song with them while Bill and Ted travel all through time, giving out instruments so that everyone can play the song together and heal a break in reality.
The break in reality was a little...WTF for me, this is a weird unexplained McGuffin that makes no sense, but mostly it's the fact that the *daughters* wrote the song and get no credit in history that annoyed me. Really? In 2020, we're going to have a story where history has completely ignored the contributions of females?
But also, back to point 1, Bill and Ted spend 25 years trying to do one thing and DON'T. Being Bill and Ted, they probably rolled with it the next day, "our daughters wrote the song and we distributed the instruments and we all saved reality together and that is most excellent!"
It's overall a fun movie, there is a lot of time traveling, Bill and Ted meeting versions of their future selves, the daughters collecting up musicians, it's fast-paced and silly, I enjoyed it, but I...want it to have been a different plot where Bill and Ted did actually write the song. This entry was originally posted at https://elayna.dreamwidth.org/314665.html. Comment wherever you prefer.
All I can say is, it is a good thing they have me for an auntie.
Last week they went camping, and I watched Bill and Ted Face the Music. I enjoyed the first one as the ridiculous fun nonsense that it is, and have watched it a couple of times. The second was not so good and I only saw it once in the theater.
The third is fun and ridiculous, much better than the second but not as good as the first, IMO. It starts 25 years after the first, and was good at using characters and referencing scenes from the other movies. I appreciate when a sequel seems to understand 'people like this world, and want to revisit it.'
I did have 2 issues.
I knew from the trailer that Bill and Ted had not written The Song and are still trying to do so. Of course, the movie goes into more details, Wyld Stallions broke up, their wives (the princesses) have supported them and are tired of it, none of the other family members believe their story, etc. Bill and Ted, being the goofy eternal optimists that they are, mostly roll with it, but even they are kinda frustrated and worried that they haven't achieved their destiny and they are letting the future down. And I thought...this is really a bummer path to take. I can see why they did it, because otherwise, they had to have written the song and the world will be different and peaceful and then where does your plot come from? But as a fanfic writer who likes to think about backstory, I can't help but picture 25 years of frustration and unhappiness and want the boys to have had a better life.
The movie switches early on from saying 'Wyld Stallions' wrote the song to 'Preston/Logan' and as both Bill and Ted have daughters, I thought, oh, I bet the girls are going to write the song. And I was correct, the daughters end up traveling through time to collect up a band of musicians and then improvise the song with them while Bill and Ted travel all through time, giving out instruments so that everyone can play the song together and heal a break in reality.
The break in reality was a little...WTF for me, this is a weird unexplained McGuffin that makes no sense, but mostly it's the fact that the *daughters* wrote the song and get no credit in history that annoyed me. Really? In 2020, we're going to have a story where history has completely ignored the contributions of females?
But also, back to point 1, Bill and Ted spend 25 years trying to do one thing and DON'T. Being Bill and Ted, they probably rolled with it the next day, "our daughters wrote the song and we distributed the instruments and we all saved reality together and that is most excellent!"
It's overall a fun movie, there is a lot of time traveling, Bill and Ted meeting versions of their future selves, the daughters collecting up musicians, it's fast-paced and silly, I enjoyed it, but I...want it to have been a different plot where Bill and Ted did actually write the song. This entry was originally posted at https://elayna.dreamwidth.org/314665.html. Comment wherever you prefer.